The Sun. — London, England, 1836-06-13 00:00:00

as well as to the settlement of property and to the union between Great Britain and Ireland ; and therefore, that whatever franchise or whatever pri vilege is bestowed by Parliament upon the vassals of the priesthood, is a power vested substantially in the foes of Protestant property, of the connection between Church and State, of the British Crown, and of the united empire. Here then is a plain and downright statement, and what is the rejoinder ? Nil. They don't meet it—they don't dare to look at it ; they travel off to something else. A reasoner and statesman, in considering this part of the sub ject, might say—" But you have already given political franchises to 101. householders or lease holders in Ireland, and why not act with some re gard to analogy, but giving municipal franchise to five pounders ?" Our answer is, that the 101. lease hold suffrage has itself proved fatal to the freedom of election, by the supremacy it has vested in the priests, and that, so far from aggravating such an evil by the admission to corporate privileges of a class of voters still less independent and effective, we would, if we had the opportunity, double the amount of the existing qualification by raising it to 20/. in Ireland, and thus confine the exercise of power to a class of Roman Catholics so intelligent and self-protected, that the priests would vainly attempt to intimidate or delude them. Is it not curious to mark the effrontery of this jargon, which deals so freely with the accusation of " insult to Ireland ?" The corporate privileges have been heretofore enjoyed by Protestants exclusively. The Papists never had the slightest interest in them, save only as allowed by Protestants. A Bill isbrought in to abolish these Corporati ons , an d t h ere i s f ort h w i t h a n outcry raised " of insult to the Irish people." And by whom is that outcry raised and encouraged ?—by the Protestants who have been robbed of their old possession ? No ; but by the Papists, who have lost nothing at all ! Th e P ro t e st an t corporators acquiesce in the deprivation inflicted upon them alone. The Papists get into a fury because they are prevented from seizing that which they never were possessed of, and because they are unable to employ against Protestants in a more violent and oppressive shape that very principle of exclu sion, which, when directed by Protestants against them, was insisted on as an intolerable grievance. Under thee circumstances, and with a preponderance of ar gument and common sense in favour of the policy adopted by the Conservatives, such as we have never known at any former crisis, O'Connell and the Minis ters have rejected the amendments made in the mea sure by the House of Lords, and have produced a majority of 86 votes—a larger majority than has yet supported them, against a more appalling power of truth and political reasoning. The effect of this vote upon the relations between the respective branches of the Legislature, on the course of the Government, and on the feelings of the people out of doors, we may have to consider presently. In our opinion the event is not likely to realize either the sanguine and sinister anticipations of one party, or the fears which may be entertained by some of its more conscientious and up right opponents. The House of Lords will be intre pid in the discharge of their duty, and in the guar dianship of our constitutional monarchy. When re volution yawns before the face of Englishmen, they will know how to retreat in time ; but we are bound to state that the time to determine is this moincmt.— Times. To all who take an interest in the success of the great measure of Negro Emancipation in our colonies, and more especially to those who await with some de gree of anxiety the consequences of the expiration of the term of apprenticeship, it will be gratifying to learn that Government is likely to be effectually assisted in carrying ont the benefits resulting from that philan thropic measure, by an association of Noblemen and Gentlemen connected with Jamaica, formed for the en couragement of free labour in that colony, particularly in the virgin lands of the interior. The names of such pr.)prietors as the Marquis of Chandos, the Earl of flarewood, Lords St. Vincent and Seaford, and Sir Alexander Grant, at the head of this asso ciation, justify us in anticipating that the course of operations, which it is intended to adopt, in con junction with the I-louse of Assembly in the island, and the Government at home, will be the most judicious and the best for effecting the great object in view. The practicabil:ty of the design is satisfactorily proved by a v,:ry clever treatise now lying before us, entitled "a Let ter to the Ploprictors and INlottgagees of Estates in the Island of Jamaica, on promotihg Immigration into that Colony." The author truly says, that " up to this p; , riod the most lamentable ignorance, and to a very considerable extent, prevaile:l in respect to the value of our West India colonies, for which it would be difficult to account, unless we suppose it to have arisen from the principal part of the trade with that portion of the empire having hitherto been confined to the hands of a comparatively few individuals." The as sociation to which we allude is, we understand, purely agricultural, and will in no way interfere with the West India interest, or the merchants, while it will most materially protect those who have estates in the island, and extricate them from a difficulty which has ever been viewed with some reason as one embarrassing, if not endangering the complete success of negro eman cipation. 'We are told that the Legislature of Jamaica, convinced that the welfare of the island will be promoted by the settlement of towns among the rural districts, have voted considerable grants for their foundation. Their advancement will be a leading object with the Company, " whose lands and whose tenantry must de rive the most important benefits from such a vicinage. European artisans and tradesmen of such crafts as can be useful in the early stages of a settlement will, there fore, be united and assisted to place themselves in those towns—employment and encouragement will there be assiduously extended to the black and coloured people, without distinction of caste. It is intended that every location should be the residence of a Christian minister —of a schoolmaster—a n d of a medical practitioner. We agree with those who anticipate from such careful and beneficent arrangements, that " the danger which some have apprehended that, at the expiration of the terms of apprenticeship, the negroes may betake them selves to the wilds, and relapse into an idle and savage life, will be effectually obviated, without forceable re medies or expensive precautions—for the proposed set tlements will not only afford an example and an invita tion to the industry of the native people, but likewise furnish a chain of stations extending widely over the country, and be occupied by a population of civilised habits and available for the maintenance of public tran quillity." The success of the design will be a triumph to humanity.—Morning Herald. The division of Friday night has excited among the supporters of the present Administration a momentary hope that Ministers may yet extricate themselves from the awkward and dangerous position in which their political conduct has placed them, or, we ought rather to say, has afforded to the organs of the party a mo mentary occasion for the affectation of that hope which they do not really feel. The tone of exultation assumed in this instance is, we venture to say, no proof of genuine confidence. It is the swagger of pretenders who hope . by putting on a bold air to confound and terrify their antagonists, and, as it is wholly unfounded, it will prove wholly ineffectual. It would have been su:prising if in an assembly so numerous as the House of Commons there had not been some individuals with whom the dread of a dissolution of Par liament is paramount to all other consider ations. Of this dread, on it the pa r t o f indi vidual Members, Ministers, is known, availed themselves ; on this occasion, to the utmost p oss ibl e extent, and, by operating upon it, they have obtained a majority of votes in the House of Commons which renders any renewal of that threat impossible—impos sible because it is certain that the threat, if repeated, as it would now be without the semblance of apology or pretext, would produce not submission, but revolt. It is a menace which, in present circumstances, would dispirit an d di sgust t h e f r i en d s o f Mi n i sters , andim part additional energy and determination to their ene mies. This we b e li eve t o b e th e un i versa l i m p re ssion in political circles. But with their majority, their de cided majority as it is called, their increased majority as everybody must acknowledge it, what are Ministers to do ? Send back to the House of Lords the mea sure amended, as the obedient majority in the House of Commons have agreed to amend it. And what then ? Surely it is not expected that the House of Lords will be swayed by a bare majority of the House of Commons, whose numbers are reinforced by men horror-stricken at the thought of an appeal to the people of England. An appeal to the people of England has no terrors for the House of Lords, who, so long as they courageously and conscien tiously discharge that duty which the Constitution has imposed upon them, may rely with the utmost confi deuce on the sympathy, and applause, and gratitude of the country. The House of Lords have taken a posi tion from which nothing can remove them, or nothing, at least, which the present House of Commons can hope to accomplish, or dare venture to attempt. They have, in effect, resolved that it would be an abdication of their c onstitutional duty to consent to the creation in Ireland of new Corporations of which the agitators of that country would obtain the absOlute control, and which would instantly be converted into the means and instruments of an organised assault upon the Protes tant Church, the British Constitution, and the subsist ing connection between Great Britain and Ireland. In the spirit of that honest and virtuous resolution the House of Lords will continue to act, with calmness and temperance, but with the utmost firmness, and the most perfect inflexibility. Their Lordships have hitherto acted upon principles and feelings which iden tify them with the people of Great Britain. They are stedfast and immovable in the consciousness of right. They are invincible and omnipotent in the unity of their principles and feelings whith those of a mighty nation. The House of Lords, we re peat,. have nothing to retract, nothing to rescind, nothing to qualify, and those who calculate upon their giving way in the slightest degree to the dictation of an O'Connellite and dissolution fearing majority of the House of Commons will find themselves grievously disappointed. As to the peculiar powers of the House of Commons as the guardian of the public purse, of which we have heard and read so much, they are powers not imparted to that assembly by the Constitution for the purpose of enabling it despotically to controul and coerce the other branches of the Legislature ; nor can their exer cise for such purposes be recommended unless by politicians in whose minds the love of place has en tirely superseded every constitutional principle, and every patriotic feeling. Such politicians, if such there be, are not so much antagonists of the House of Lords, as rebels to the Crown. And we scarcely think that the time is yet arrived when the characters `' of Minister and of rebel to the Crown will generally be deemed compatible with each other. 'We are not quite sure, indeed, how far the present Ministers, rather than go out, might carry the attempt to recon cile constitutional inconsistencies ; but we own we do not see much reason to apprehend that a House of Commons in which the terror of dissolution is predo minant, will venture to employ a weapon entrusted to it for purposes merely economical and defensive, as an instrument of attack upon the constitutional independ ence of another branch of the Legislature.—Morning Post. We have one remark to make on the dull and wea risome debate which terminated on Saturday morning in a majority of 86 in favour of Ministers. It cer tainly was most wearisome in point of argument, and most useless in point of practice. The House of Lords had provoked a collision with the Commons. They had rejected the Bill for granting those equal mu nicipal privileges to Ireland which had been previously granted to the rest of the United Kingdom—a Bill sent up to them by the Lower House in a wise spirit of conciliatory foresight. Certainly a Bill not grant ing equal rights to one of the three co-equal mem bers of the Union, would be tantamount to a public declaration that the Union was mere waste paper, and that a repeal of it was just and necessary. This Bill, thus wisely framed for the purpose of pro moting a national union, and putting doyen agitation in Ireland, the Lords rejected. They seem to have re jected it for the mere purpose of showing their capa city for and delight in mischief. We cannot imagine any other motive either for the rejection of the Bill, or the insulting mode in which that rejection was was made. The Bill which they sent down in lieu of it to the House of Commons, was so totally different from that of the Commons, that an obliteration by pen of every line of it would have been a less insultin,? act. Like grown babies, or spoilt children, their Lordships pettishly and spitefully rejected an overture, which was for their own good as as for the good of the country. They tore the Bill thus characterized into fragments, and threw them contemptuously into the I face of the Lower House. Deprecating agitation, they have moved heaven and earth in order to create it ;—deprecating collision, they have themselves, with wa}ward perverseness, forced on a collision which cannot fail to be baneful to themselves. What was the use of so many words ? Words arc wasted on their stolid temerity. The insulted majority of the House of Commons, instead of talking, should have raised the cry of " question " oo the first night, and instantly come to a division. The broad side was provoked by the enemy, and should have been given instantly, without parley. This is the great fault of all our public proceedings. There is too much talk, and too little promptitude of act— the fruit of public benefit is overwhelmed with a rank foliage of words. We are hurrying on fast towards a Logomachy—of which hamlet's response to Polonius, Words, words, words !" would form a good motto. We should like to see something like the vote of a French Conventionalist during the French Revolution, 'to which he appended th e words sans phrases. Well ; —the Lords have themselves fairly provoked the colli sion which they have all along pretended to deprecate and fear so much. They have created the dilemma for themselves, and they must endeavour to get out of the Caudine Forks into which they have blindly plunged. If they get out of them without injury and loss, it will indeed be miraculous. It is a question of political life and death between them and the Com mons which they have provoked, and the first of the two which yields may as well pronounce their abdication, turn the key of their door, and retire from their public function. Which then must yield —for one must ? That is the question. The House of Lords, according to its organ, will not budge an inch—the Commons dare not, cannot. Into this col lision has the ex-Jacobin, Lord Lyndhurst, returning probably to the vomit of his early opinions, entrapped his unfortunate aristocratical friends. His object might be fairly suspected—to promote that universal liberty and equality of Sansculotism which was his first and youthful love. Certainly, if his clients 'have no reason to be dissatisfied, the people have no reason to be dis satisfied ; for good must eventually result to them out of that conflict of the aristocracy and democracy which he has counselled or provoked. There was one re markable sign of the times perspicuously brilliant du ring the verbose clouds and shadows of Saturday morning's debate. To this we point the attention of the Peerage. It was an observation of Sir R. Peel, whose sagacious skill in political meteorology cannot be disputed. To the Lords it is a sign like that exhibited to Milton's angel of darkness when contending with the angel of light, namely, a subverted b a lance. To the . peo ple it is a sign o f cer t ain t r i um ph, ( su b h oc sign° 'Lances) like that which appeared to Constantine in the midst of his conflict with a system about to pass away. Sir R. Peel's observation was to the effect, that if a con test were to arise between the hereditary and popular Houses, lie would stand or fall with his order. Sir E. Sugden, whose Toryism and sagacity are equally indisputable, gave cotemporaneously, at a public meeting, a similar intimation. He said, that it was in vain for the Peers to resist the Commons, unless sup ported by a large majority of the intelligent population of the country. The Lords, therefore, have a chance of being " left alone in their glory" in the belligerent position they have taken up—where, like Macbeth at Dunsinane, there is neither means of tarrying or flying. But were it not so, what would the puny phalanx of the Rodens, and Kenyons, and Winchilseas do against the united pop u l ar f orce o f t h e t h ree kingdoms? What shield would the glittering trinkets o f th e i r s t ars , an d ribands, and coronetted baubles, be against the thunder stroke of public indi gna ti on ? In that political day of judgment, they would cast away their idols, and call on the rocks to hide them. Yet their champions boast and threaten by turns, while they avow their fears. " So spake the apostate spirit, unsubdued, Vaunting aloud, though rack'd With deep despair." ...Morning Advertiser. ~_ t. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1836. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, Acc. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10. N amber Dividend Price of -- - p - e . r - CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. ~7CO 64 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham-. A.verage 97/. 18s. sh. 162 1,182 111. Ashby.de_le-Zouch Average 11:V. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 54 1,005 51. Brecknocr. and Abergavenny 150' sh. 90 1,00.045 h. 121. 10s. Birmingham, 1-16th share - 171. 10s. 206 4,001 Ditto and Liverpool Junct....o 0/. sh. all 1d 30.4 600 ......... Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater .. lOOl. sh. 102 500 42!. Coventry lOOl. sh. 775 4,516 Croydon Average 311.25. 10d. sh. 3 2(cq 31. 10s. Dudley lOO/. sh. 78 fit 40 61. Derby 1001. sh. 120 , 20,000 Danube and Mayne 111. 136.4 d. 15/. pd 10 3,5754 Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 80 231 431. Erewash 100/. sh. 400 1,2; , 7 23/. - Forth and Clyde Average 4M/.lr , s. sh. 590 1, ,, 0 1 12/. Grand June" - :',8491 Grand Union 100/. oh. 25 1,5'1 Grand Surrey 100!. sh. 10,0410.'. 4/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. '75 3,096 Grand Western RV/. oh. all pd 19 600 131. 12s. .d. Glamarganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 1,900 Gloucester and Berkley 100/. sh. 144 74)) 10t. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 - 1,2351 11. 106 Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 6d. sh. 32 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 53213 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Bs. 106. sh. 20 2,8074 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 510 515 12!. Leicester l4O l. sh. 149 907 4/. Leicester and Northamp:on...Aver 83/. 10s. 73 2,409 9/. Monmouthshire lOO/. sh. 200 250 91. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 200 500 23/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 580 3,000 Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 54 247 15/. Neath 100/. sh. 325 1,786 .12/. Oxford 100/. sh. 5814 522 2/. Oakham 130/. sh. 38 2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 78/. sh. 104 31,413 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 10s. rd. sh. 184 5,6e , 9 5/. per cent. liochdale Average ) 8 3 sh. 120 sflo 81. Shropshire /25/. sh. 140 800 to!. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 160 15,110/. 61 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 111 700 361. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 691) 500 11/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 1245 300 81. Stourbridge 3,617 1/. 10s. Stratford-on- Avaii ...Average 791. 9s. lid. sh. 424 533 1.1/. Swansea 100/. sh. 215 3,702 11. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 174 2,60 •-.4 so. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 4 share 1001. sh. 595 8,1.1) 'Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Bd. sh. 2 I '" 14 1 1,51. Warwick and Birmingham . 100 /. sh 276 I,ooolsh. 9 8 0 H... Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 216 6,000 3/. IN Worcester and Ilirmingham...Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 82 5, , ;0') 255. Wilts and Berke .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 18 4 800 Cl. Wyrley and Essington 125!. sh 75 126 Wisbeach ... 1051. sh. 45 905 11. Wcy and Arun llOl. sh. 224 DOCKS. 2 ' 600 8( 3 p. c. Commercial - 1001. sh. 57 1,c0545h - 198,667 N. 4 per cent. East India • Stock 106 3,233,31041. bUs. p. et. London Ditto Bonds ,380,000/. 5/. per ct. West India 2._0) 3/. 66. 4d. Bristol Average 117/. 19s. sh. 15 65,024/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1.351,752 3 p-. 1. cent. St. Katharine Stock 113 50(4090 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 1024 Shoreham Harbour 2 530 .... .... Deptford Pier °Ol. sh. 3/. pd BRIDGES. 1.6 ~...._ - 0 11. Hammersmith 50/. sh. 23 7,201 ... .... Southwark, Old Av. 63/. 2s. 80. sh. 41 1,790 1/. ...... Ditto, New, of if per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 1,000 Waterloo lOOl. sh. 3; :5,090 1/. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pd IS 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 15 , 10,000/. 51. per cent. Pitt() Bonds 6,04) 11. Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 22 ASSURANCE COMPAN:ES. 0,000 3/ li's Albion 500/. sh. 59/. pd 78 59,000 r l a x ' n l yr t l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10/. pd 12f 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 5-1 24.000 I 1 per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pd 141 1,000 : ph. 4/. Birmingham Eire 250/. sh. 55/. pd It's 20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 45 . 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. 04. 5/. pd CI 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life, KO/. sh. 12/10s pd 31 4,000 21 ;Os County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 40 10,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 6 2 - 0 [an pe , 3, -, , b 51 Economic Life 5 r cent. lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 375 0 2,271 51/. percent. European Life 2O /. sh. all p d 22 55,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 11. 12s. ,001,0001. 71. per ct. Globe S tock 160 20,000 I/. Guardian 1001. sh. 20/. pd 37 Fire 5 p et. 10 M 00 /Life. 8 p ell " or' 50/. sh. 5/. pa 6 2,100 Si. 7s. lid. Imperial Fire 5001. sli. 50/. pd 121 7,500 Os. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 10 1 1 :3,158 10s.6ct per sh. Indemnity Marine ICU sh, Si. pa 17 2,0.20 3/ 10$ Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 90 3/. Ditto Life 79 10, , 00 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 27 11,91)0 London, Fire 251 sh. 121. 10s. pi 15 1 000 ........ London, Ship "5' sh. 19/. 10s. pd 15 3 1 ,0 '0 11. per cent. Palladium Life 501. sh. 21. pd 217 s 60 '5. , ,119 , Is. lid. i•rotcytor Fite 'VI. sh. 2/. pd 1018, 00 •?,50 1 1 11. Provident Life lOOl. sh. UV. pd 101 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. `a. pd 61 1,19,020 5/. per ceut. Royal Exchange Sir,' k... 202 Sun :210 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,001 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life ./ pd ..._ . ..-- MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of June 10.) Suonn.-The large arrivals since last Thursday from the West Indies, in all 20 vessels bringing 6,700 hhds. and 1,300 trs., &c., have produced not the least effect upon the Sugar market. Demerara of good brown quality 645., and dry 635., mid. grocery 65s a 665. ; Antigua good grocery 665. a 695. ; Jamaica mid. 645. a 655. 6d., good for the scale 665. a 675, fine 70s. a 71s. ; Tobago mid. 645. a 655. 6d. ; Grenada and Tri nidad of similar quality 645. a 655. 61 At alction 132 hhds. new Barbadoes went at full prices, from 675. 6d. a 70s. The estimated purchases for the week are 2,700 hhds. and trs. ; Antiguas with much colour sold at 70s. 6d., and Jamaicas 715., the highest prices paid yet; at the close of the Market but a very few boards remained unsold ; scarcely any low brown Sugars are to be had under 625. 6d. or 635. The general advance since Friday 6d. a ls. for fine, fully the latter. There has been very liitle demand for refined goods ; for some small parcels of fine Crushed 445. paid, but there are not sellers generally under 445. 6d., or 85s. 6d. long price for Lumps to pass the standard ; Grocery descriptions have been in request at 83s. 6d. a 84s. and 84s. 6d. for Lumps greatly inferior to the standard sample. No sales of Dutch Crushed this week ; sellers at 435. ; brown grocery Lumps 83s. 6d. a 845., and Lumps to pass the standard 85s. a 85s. 6d. MAuniTius.-Brown fetched 60s. 6d. a 625. 6d., low yel low 635., mid. to good yellow 645. a 665. 6d., fine coloury 68s. 6d. a 695. 6d. ; profits of 6d. a Is. are now freely offered upon the lots taken in at the public sales on Tuesday, but re fused. The public sale of 2,393 bags this afternoon went off readily at prices 6d. above those of Wednesday for the Re fining descriptions, the other sorts sold at former rates, good strong grey working Sugars went at 645. 6d. a 665: 6d., good grocery yellow 645. a 655. 6d., good brown 625. 6d. EAST INDIA.-For Bengal Sugar by private contract at 38s. a 41s. for mid. to good white. Prices remain firm. FOREIGN.-The private purchases during the week are 154 chests brown Bahia afloat, to be delivered at Hambro at 295. ; old ord. yellow Havannah not to be had under 405., and mid. whites 535. MoLAssEs.-Several parcels of St. Vincents and Demeraras sold at 295. for common, and 30s. for good. COFFEE.-Prices at the different public sales on Wednesday and yesterday gave way 2s. to 3s. for the good to fine ordinary qualities, and is. a 2s. for the middling to good middling, making the average decline since Friday last on all descrip tions, 2s. Jamaica Pea being at 115 s. 6d. to 1165., very good mid. coloury 100 s. a 1055., mid. 9:s. a 955. 6d., fine to fine fine ord. 85s. a 88s. 6d., good and fine ord. 80s. a 845., low end. 765. a 78s. ; Berbice, mid. 945. a 955., triage 85s. ; Demerara, mid. unclean 755. For Mocha, 60 bales mid. green, mixed with brown, 655. 6d. a 665., small berry 725. For Ceylon, 545. paid for good, 535. for fair, and 51s. for a small parcel of ordinary brown ; 500 bags good ord. Brazil sold by private contract at 525. 6d. a 535. 6d. The public sales this afternoon are 72 casks and 22 barrels Jamaica, the fine fine ordinary to low and mid. sold at 87s. 6d., Is. higher, good mid. taken in at 98s. 63., being held for 100 s. ; 126 bales Mocha went at stiff prices, common to good 665. to 745. 6d. SILK.-255. a 265. paid for ord to mid. Tsatlee Chinas. COCOA.—Fair grey Trinidad at 535. a 545., dark 455. a 505., and common Grenada 475. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-60 puns. good Jamaica 32 to 35 per cent. over sold at 4s. a 4s. Id., and 80 puns. Leewards 8 per cent. over 2s. 4i-d. Geneva is ls. 11d. a 25., and in steady request. The sales this afternoon of Rums arc —Jamaica 28 per cent. over, 3s. 10d., 30 over 45., 33 over 4s. Id., Leewards 7 per cent. over 2s. 4d. Few parcels of Jamaicas arc now offering under 4s. TALLOW.—The late advance is fully supported, 465. 9d. a 475. paid for some parcels. PROVISIONS.—SmaII sales of new Cork made at 86s. a 905., and Limerick at 88s.-82s. a 84s. paid for Freizland. The Market for Lard has been heavy, and Waterford bladdered has declined in value Is. a 25., sellers at 665. a 68s. The Bacon Market is heavy, and prices ls. a 2s. lower ; some small parcels of small Waterford sold at 535. a 545., and large at 525. Foreign Cheese is Is. a 2s. dearer. INDIGO. —2O chests new East India Indigo, sold on an average at 6s. Id., being at the rate of 6d. per lb. higher than last sale. CceniNEAL.-26 bags Honduras at public sale sold 2d. cheaper, ord. to fine silvers 7s. 2d. a 7s. lid., and blacks ss. 3d. a 8. sd. SpicEs.-Bengal Ginger is 2s. higher ; 482 bags at auc tion sold at 38s. 61. a 395. 6d. At auction this afternoon 6 casks Mace for exportation sold at 4s. 6d. a 4s. 7d. 86 bags Pimento fetched 30. a 4d. for mid., steady prices; and 219 bags Pepper, very common foul Malabar Ofd. former prices. OILS.-The public sales this week of 330 tuns Southern Oil, went at a reduction on former rates of 20s. a 255., and was mostly taken for the North of England and Scotland, fine 37/. a 37/. 10s., ord. and good 331. a 34/. 55., and upwards ; Black, 30/. 10s. Linseed Oil is in request for forward deli very at 41s. Gd. RICE.-Carclina is Is. dearer; Bengal good mid. sold white ord. quality at 14s. a Iss. 6d., good new mid. white dusty 14s. 6d. a 15s. Carolina Rice taken by the shippers at 21s. At auction 1,400 bags East India Rice offered, the cargo all sold at 9s. Gd. a 10s. for good, Bengal all taken in at 13s. a 13s. 6d. for good but very dusty. NITRATE OF SonA.----A few parcels arc to be had under 21s. 6d. a 225. DrEs, &e. —At public sale 117 chests Shellac 51. Ils. a 71. Is. ; 24 hales Bengal Safflower 41. ss. to 61. 10s. far common middling, 71. a 71. 17s. 6d. for good to fine, being about 10s. higher. TEA.--The public 'sales of 62,000 packages commenced yesterday morning ; the sales went off heavily, the fine sorts Id. under those of the Company's, the common kinds at former rates, and in some cases rather cheaper ; common Congous sold at Is. 21d. a Is. 4A-d., fine Is. 10d. a 2s. 3d. : Fokiou Bobea Is. 3id. a Is. Congou kind Is. 21d. The sales of Free Trade Teas, which commenced yesterday, went at the following prices, Bohea, Canton 10.1 d. a 10V., Fokien Is. 2id. a Is. 44d. ; Congou, but mid. Is. IV. a ls. blackish leaf Is. 111-d. a 2s. 4d.; Twankay Is. tid. a 2s. ; Hyson 3s. a_3s._loi-ci. Flops.—The Market is still heavy, and the prices full 4s lower this week. TURPENTINE.—Spirit.s have bier, done at 665., but have since rallied to 683. a 695. ; sales of rough made at 14s. 6d. a 15s. SALTPETRE.- At auction 3G4 bags good fair strong gre, sold at 303. a 30s. 61. for 2i refraction. The Calcutta Papers announce the death of Mr. John Palmer on the 21st of January, one of the principal mer chants there. Mr. Palmer entered business in Calcutta about fifty years ago in the retail line, in partnership with Mr. St. George Tucker, now a Director of the East India Company, afterwards conducted it by himself, and subsequently joined Mr. Barber, with whom he carried on business under the firm of Barber, Palmer, and Co. Mr. Palmer afterwards entered into partnership with Mr. Traill, whose partners, Messrs. Paxton and Cockerel], had proceeded to Europe. Mr. Traill himself shortly after retired, and Mr. Palmer continued the business under the well-known firm of Palmer and Co., which in 1830 failed, and drew down with it, within a few years, all the long-established agency houses of that place. Tuesday morning, eleven shepherds from Lochaber, with twelve women, and a due proportion of collies or shep herds' dogs, left Inverness for Van Diemen's Land. One of the Highlanders learning in Lochaber that Government had offered a bounty of 201. to all married men, and not being pro vided with a helpmate, set about supplying this deficiency. He had only three days to accomplish the task of courtship and marriage, and he met with two refusals. At length, on the last day that he could remain at home, he popped the question to a decent young woman, who gave her assent. Her friends refused, but the parties got on board the steam-boat in the Canal for Inverness, and were determined to be united. They had great difficulty in finding a minister to tie the knot ; hut as the vessel was passing through Gairloch lock, at five o'clock on Saturday morning, fortunately a clergyman came on beard for a few minutes, and the ceremony was performed, to the no small joy of the parties, and the amusement of sun dry Englishmen, passengers, who got on deck with nightcap and greatcoat, to witness a marriage in Gaelic.---Inverness Courier. FOR THE TEXIAN FRONTIER.—Governor Can non, of Tennessee, has issued a proclamation responding to the requisition of Gen. Gaines for assistance, in which he invites the citizens of that State to come forward and volunteer their services in his aid. The Nashville Republican expresses an opinion that his Excellency's call will be readily and promptly complied with by the people of Tennessee.—American Paper. - _ THE CATHOLIC CLERGY OF GHENT.--The Roman Catholic service is performed with great pomp in its Cathedral, which pomp is greatly enhanced by the superiority of the sacred music performed at it. I attended a solemn high mass there on a Sunday, and a more magnificent service I never witnessed even in Catholic Germany. The bishop, a good looking man, with an appearance of great humility, presided over the ceremonies. It can scarcely be from prejudice that I say, for I am of the same faith with themselves, but I think I never looked on a set of men with more sinister countenances than his officiating clergy. What is the most extraordinary circumstance in connexion with their looks is, that the younger they were, the worse seemed to me to be the expression of their faces. The mild, gentlemanly look of the bishop contrasted advantageously with the dark repulsive aspect of his inferior clergy. Two vergers in full costume—a cocked hat of enor mous dimensions, a laced coat, broad belt, and epaulets, marched up and down the church during divine service. Each bore in his hand a long pole with a battle-axe on the end. What business had any thing like the appearance of on instrument of war and death in God's house ? Perhaps it was only emble matic of the church militant, a character which the church of Ghent has always sustained ; or, in illustration of Words worth's well-known line— " Yea, carnage is thy daughter," I know not. To me they appeared out of place and out of keeping. I was much edified by the decent piety manifested by the crowds who filled the vast edifice on this as on all other occasions when I was present. I have a strong . objection to the system of begging in the churches during divine service, practised generally on the Continent. Three persons, officers of the church, I believe, come round and rattle a copper box before almost every individual of the congregation. It has the effect of distracting the attention from objects of higher interest, while it has no mitigation in the poverty of the priests. A church supported by the state, as the Catholic church in Belgium is, should be above beggary. Another nuisance is the collection of cents for the use of chairs; which, like the former, takes place in the very middle of your devotions. Why not take the money for the latter at the beginning of the ser vice, and for the former at its termination ? Habit may re concile others to it, but n o l eng th of time has succeeded in making it otherwise than unpleasant to me.—A Saunter in 13eium. JOINT STOCK BANKS ..—.... ..„—.. ........___ 5,0rt0 A u st r ..livia 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 55 1 0 , , r0 10 percent. Ban's of Birmingham .. 5ll. sh. 101. pd P 3 1 (1 ,(00 10 per cent. Bit minghtun Bank 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 14 IS,f.'oo 2 percent. Lon,lon and Westminster...loo/ sh. 15/. pd 243 :r,noo Lineaster 100/. sh. I. pd on '25,'1 , 0 (1 per cent. Liverpool 100/ Bh. 10/. pd 2t 20,0 , 0 73 percent. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 101 pd 2' Discount 20,300 fi per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 2' , ,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 23/. pd 47 20, tit) 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland 5l. sh. 121/. pd liii 10,100 National Provincial Eng. —IOW. sh. 25/. pd 21 :9,000 10 p,r cent. Gloucestershire 6,q00 Hampshire cO/. sh 51. pd 9 G AS LIG If r AND COKE COMPANIES. .... _ __ „. .. . ........- ... .. 501 1/ 02s • Bath i , fll. sh. 111. pd 25 5,600 6/. per cent. British 46/. sh. 16/. pd 211 5,0(10 t 5 :,:•,:i e i . ., e ,7 1 5 ) :: - } Ditto Provincie.l 2oi. sh. 19 pd 24 Slt 5/ 10s Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 105 4,2'0 2/ Os Bristol 2O sh. 40 1,500 Ili g,liton ~ 0 / sh. 14i 716 Ditto, New' '4loi. 3h. IS/. pd 11;- 2,171 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 19 4,099 21. Continental C.lnsoliclated lOOl 514/.lxl 93 1,090 lot. C,tv of London lOO/. sh. all pd 155 1,.'00 61. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. Irs. Equitable ... 4O/. pd 31 10,. 60 5!. per cent. Imperial .... ..•50/. sh. 41 800 51. per cent. Is;e c.l Thane. 25/. sh. 20/. pd IN 2,050 6t. per cant. ' nilepende^t 'M. sh. a'l pd IS 1,5 - 0 74 per cent. Leed3' ' , ll/ Eh. 201.1x1 25 iy) '0 :31. per cent. Phrenik 5(11. sit. 3941)(1 224 1,909 4/. per cent. itatcli' lOO/. sh. ('Ol. pd 05 4,0 0 South Mcitroliolitan Si. ' sh. 131. pd /7 8,200 5/. per cent. Coiled General .. 5O/. sh. 45/. pd 57 71'1 5/. per csiit. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 ‘l''fl 81. per cent (Vakefiold 25/. sh. 4.2' 12,' , 0 N. Werttninster Chartered - 50/. sh. 5 1 i 6,(4)1 12 Ditto, New 5 )l. sh. 10/. pd 1(1 1,0 Ya-mouth WATER W.JRKS. 1,500 Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 20 1,131 5/. Lis' London lOOl. sh. 135 1, 7 A33 2/ lOs Br nin .: unction ....Averagd 411 13, 4d. sh. 53 2,001 21. Kent 3 1 5 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sit. 310 1,500 2/ IN N2W r a ver London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,4S'i I/. illr.achester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. Smith London lOO/. sh. 81 ,•,, 'OO 3/. West Middlesex Average 6:31. 12s. 9d. sh. 7(i 1,360 I/ Its York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35! IRON RAILWAYS. 2,500 Aylesbury .20/. sh. 11. pd. 2,4 1/ , 7,5u0 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction •~. 001 Patton and Leigh !n,r)o . ) Calcutta and Sailor 5O/. sh. 21. pd I 1 2,1100 Clarence lOOl. sh. 1001. pd 43 ?.501 19a. Forest of ?)can 5O/, pd 23 :10,001 c rand Junction 100/. sh. 401. p 1 I+7 30. 0 ,J1 Great Western lOO/ sh. 201. pd 4 , 1 2,0 0 0 ll2.rtlepool lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 8 7 1 2,100 Hull and 'elby 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 7 1 2,10 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 120 1,5113 Leicester and Swannington .....501. sh. all pd IS 5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchcster...loo/.sh. 100/. psi 280 Ditto Quarter Shares ou, pd 61 70 1441. Loughborough . Average 1421. 17s. sh. 10,000 London and Rri,glito.i 45, 0 00 Ditto ditto (Gibb , J , -20/ sh. 11 pd 02 Ditto ditto (Rennie) 12,C00 London and Illackwall 501 sh. 3/ pd 41 Londo . and Dover 501. sh. 11. pd ( 1 30,009 London and Gravesend .201 sh Il pd '4 'lO,OOO 3 per cent. London and Greenwich - .0/. s'4. 204 pd 251 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. oh. 601. pd 135 20,1.00 London and Southampton 5 ,0/. sh. Pl. pd 2 3 London and Croydon 51. pd 41 20,000 Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. 31. pd :i. 12,500 North Midland lOO/. sh. Si. pd 12 1 2,00) Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 3/. pd 10 1,100 61. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOOl. sh. 249 8,000 Tha ves Haven 5Ol. sh. .21. 10s. pd 2 6,001 York and North Midland 5Ol. sh. 11. pd 31 MINES. .......,. 8,000 Albion Copper —5/. sh. 3/. pd Oi 4,000 Alton 151: sh. 10/. 10s pd 8: 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all 151 54 Ditto Subscription 05/. pd 3; 2,000 Bolanos 111,000 31. -5. Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 15/. sh. 20/ pd 30 6,0 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 25/. sh. 221. pd 13; Ditto St. John Del Hey .0/. sh. Sal. pd 6 10,090 B olivar Copper Company 201. sh. 20!. pd 11 10,000 .... ..... Ditto Scrip tit. pd I 20,011 L 10s. British Iron 5O/. sh. 5 , 7 pd 39 6,000 ... ...... British Copper 5/. sh. 3//. pd 5; 11,600 Cata Branca ell. pd 7 Candonga 7;l. pd '7l. 10,000 Copiapo 2O/. sh 121/ pd 20 8,500 Columbian, iss. 3/. pm....... 55/. sh. 55/. pd 14 2,8:)0 34 English l2! Es : pd 22 . __ jsd .. 20,000 General Mining Association...2ol. sh. 15/. 7f 8,155 Mexican Company 10 0 /. sh 51 1 1/. pd 3 2,00'J Polberou Consols 10/ sh. 8/. pd L,91 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 214 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/ pd 135' 20,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd 34 Ditto Scrip lli Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5l Pd 4 5,1.00 ... ...... Union Gold, iss. 2/. ss. pin.... 22,1/. sh. 4//. pd West Cork 504 sh. 501. pd 35i LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket.........75g5. sh. 20} 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pd 241 700 Russell 25gs. sh. 8 King' College 100/. pd 30 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,110 10s. Australian Agricultural...lool. sh. 2fl/. pd 40A s I, l lio 1/. Auction Mart Loan 50 /. sh. 19 8,000 British American Land Company .. 13/. pd II 200 10 ;0 00 0 2 1 1001. sh. . 201. pd 37 6 51 1. p p e e r , cent. cei,t. Canada upl, C o Canastatnpa n y ........ 4 pm. City Bonds, 4 per cent lO3 15,000 11. per cent. General Steam Navigation ~.15/. sh, 13/ . pd 27 pi, per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2 000 1/. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. ]9 , New Brunswick Land Company 281 pd 25 4 2,73-1. 5/. per cent. Reversiona r y Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/ . pd 1324 2,833 5/. per cent. Ditto lOO/. sh. 45/. pd 77i, 4,1100 Thames Tunnel 50/. s h . all pd 8 10,000 Van Diemer.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. p d 131 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MAY 20, 1836. BANKS. 1,500,0091. 61. p. et. Bank of Scotland 831. Gs. 8.1.81). all pd 2011. 2,000,0)(/. hi p. ct. Royal of Scotland 10015 h. all pd 170/. 500.01 N. hp. ct. British Linen Company 1004 sh. 411 pd 240/. 3,000,0 , X/. N. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl sh. 1001. pd pm 5,000,0001. sp. ct, National lOO/. sh. 10/, pd 75it1 2,000,000/. 41. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/ . sh. 5 01. pd ,51: 4,000,1101. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 301. pd 374 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. ti p. ct. Scottish Union 2O/. 811. 11. pd 2es ,500 hp. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 131104 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/. sh. all pd 71 O. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2O O/. sh . 10/. pd 15z - 1,100 sp. et. Caledonian Fire MO/. sh. 104 pd 15110 a 5,000 Ip. et. Edinburgh Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 1 411os 100,000 . MISCELLANEOU S. 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Allocated Or!. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. - Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 271, Carron * l ro n Company . 2501 . sh. all pd 9504 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh. 391 . Pd 30/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 161. pd sii. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh . all pd 6144 9,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas ....................•251. sh. all pd 6 0 /. 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas .... . .. .. . 201: sh. all lad 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkaill Railway...sol.ih - 6 3 7 01 1 .• MOO 51 per cent Equitable Loan Company 251 . eh. 91, pi 101. CHANCERY COURT.-SATURDAY. BARRATT V. HOWARD. The question of costs in this protracted suit was argued this morning. It was a suit for specific performance of an agreement for the purchase of a house at Tonbridge. The claim was resisted by Miss Howard, the defendant, on the ground that the agreement sought to be imposed was not the one signed by her, but a different agreement, signed by her brother, her agent in London, without her authority for that purpose. The Master, in an order of reference to him, reported on that point in favour of the defendant. There were exceptions to that report, a hearing of the ex ceptions by the Vice-Chancellor, an appeal from his decree to the Lord Chancellor, an issue directed by him to a jury, a new trial of that issue, further proceedings in the Master's office, a hearing in this Court on further directions, when a decree was made against the defendant, dismissing her bill generally, with costs. The LORD-CHANCELLOR said, the costs up to the Master's finding against the plaintiff should fall on him. The costs of the proceedings on the appeal from the Vice- Chancellor, and of the first trial of the issue, and of the further proceedings before the Master, were to be paid by both parties, each paying his own costs. The costs of the second trial were also to be paid by the plaintiff. MA RE V. MALACHI. This appeal was opened, and the further hearing post poned. VICE-CHANCERY-SATURDAY.. His HONOUR disposed of a number of short causes to-dad•. MASSEY V. PARKER. This is a case which has been much discussed in reference to a limitation to the separate use of a married woman. Mr. Sharpe now stated that the parties had come to an agree ment to settle one half of the fund in question to the sepa rate use of the wife, and to pay the other half to the assignee of her husband, an insolvent. BAINBRIDGE V. SMITH. A married lady had no power of appointment over a fund by any writing signed, sealed, and attested in the pre sence of two witnesses, or by her will signed and attested in the presence of three witnesses. She left a writing in the form of a will, which was "signed, sealed, and deli vered," as and for her will, in the presence of only two wit nesses. The question was now raised whether this instru ment was an execution of her power. His HONOUR de clared the will was not an execution of her power. KING'S BENCII.-SATURDAY. THE KING V. IDSLEY. This was an action for a habeas corpus to bring np the bodies of some children, at present in the custody of the defendant. They were the children of the defendant's daughter, and the defendant and his wife had, upon her death, received letters from the father of the children, earnestly entreating them to come from America, where they then resided, to England, and to take the children un der their care. They did accordingly give up their em ployment and come to England, and took the children into their care and custody, and had assiduously attended to them ever since. After their arrival here, and before the death of the father, the children received, through the be quest of some relative, a considerable acccession of for tune, and his father, on his death-bed, made a will, in which he appointed two persons his executors, declared the guar dians of his children, and expressed his hope that they should see his children properly brought up and educated. The executors now made the present application to have the custody of the children delivered over to them. The COURT, with some regret, on account of the circum stances of the case, admitted that the father's right was pa ramount, and made the rule for the habeas corpus absolute. THE KING V. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS. This was a rule for a mandamus to be directed to Mr. Williams, the late town clerk of Ludlow, and to the other defendants, members of the late corporation of that borough, commanding them to deliver up to the present town clerk and town council the leases, books, papers, documents, plate, &c., of the late corporation, and now in the custody of the defendants. The only question was as to whether the late town clerk, who had been likewise attorney and solicitor for the corporation, had a lien for his bill of costs as such attorney on the leases granted by the corporation, which had come into his hands in his character of attorney for the corporation. Mr. Williams deposed to his always having been ready to deliver up all the other things claimed by the present rule. Rule discharged without costs. COMMON PLEAS.-FRIDAY. CON.-MALLIN V. TAYLOR. This was an action tried at the last Assizes of York, be fore Lord Chief Justice Denman and a Special Jury ; but as the facts of the case were so fully reported, not only at the trial, but lately upon the motion of the plaintiff to set aside the verdict, upon which Mr. Sergeant Wilde obtained a Rule Nisi, we abstain now from giving thbm. To-day was appointed to hear the defendant's Counsel against the Rule, and in support of the verdict. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN read the Judge's notes of the trial, as well as the evidence given in the Ecclesiastical Court. Mr. CRESSWELL was heard at great length against the Rule, when the Court pestponed hearing further argument until to-day. EXCHEQUER COURT.-FRIDAY. SIBONI V. KIRKMAN AND OTHERS. This was the only cause which came before the Court this day possessing the slightest claim to notice. It was an action for breach of contract by the plaintiff, who had for merly been a singer at the Italian Opera, against the de fendants, the executors of Kirkman, the pianoforte maker. The plaintiff in 1814, being about" to go abroad, entered into a contract with the testator (Kirkman), which was— he was to leave with Kirkman his old pianoforte, which was worth 731., in consideration of getting, on his return to England, whenever that might be, a new pianoforte of the value of 40/. Siboni went to Italy about November, 1814, and on his return to England, in 1834, he found that Kirkman bad been some years dead. He then applied to the defendants, his executors, for a piano, according to the contract, which they refused to give him. He then brought his action upon the contract. The defendant resisted it, on the ground that from the lapse of time and other cir cumstances a release or satisfaction should be presumed, and also that they were not bound to perform the testator's contract. The plaintiff at the trial was nonsuited, but a verdict was ultimately entered for him. Mr. KELLY, on the part of the defendants, this day moved to arrest the judgment. The Court refused the rule, but intimated that a writ of error might be brought to determine the question. KENSINGTON SESSIONS. FRACAS IN AN OMNIBUS. — On Saturday Colonel George Knight, of the Bengal service attended to answer a charge of assault preferred against him by Mr. G. W. Yates, artist, residing in Earl's-court, Kensington. Mr. Yates, on the 2d inst., got into the " Lord Chancel lor" omnibus, in Piccadilly, and sat next to the defendant. On their arrival near the Horse Barrack, at Knightsbridge, a lady hailed the conductor, but witness objected to her being admitted, the vehicle already containing the licensed number. The defendant, however, said, " It's a lady, we can't refuse her ;" on which witness withdrew his objection, and she was admitted, and sat partly on witness's knee, and partly on that of the gentleman next him. From that time the defendant commenced a series of annoyances, by pushing him against the lady, of which she at length complained, when witness told him he was no gentleman to act in such a manner. The defendant immediately called witness a liar, a vagabond, and a scoundrel, and added, if that was not enough, he did not know what was. He then challenged witness to get out of the omnibus and-take his card, and said he would fight him. Witness, however, declined the offer, and repeated his former assertion, that the defendant was no gentleman ; on which the defendant struck him with his elbow in his face. The defendant then stopped the omni bus and got out, followed by witness, who gave him into the custody of a policeman, who refused to take the charge, not having witnessed the assault ; and, upon getting the defen dant's address, he was allowed to depart. The Bench had no doubt an assault had been com mitted, but under the circumstances of the case they con sidered a fine of 10s. would be sufficient, which the Colonel immediately paid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. WHOLESALE iOIt;EIITE;.-L-JC. lad named James Bow man, dressed in a highly fashionable cloak, was brought before the Lord Mayor by Roe, the officer, on charges of forgery to the amount of 7201. Mr. Birch, the solicitor to the committee of bankers for protection against forge ries and frauds, attended for the prosecution. The pri soner, who had voluntarily given himself up, after having got rid of all the cash except fourpence, was undefended. He is about 18 or 19 years of age. Mr. Richard Ravenhill, of the firm Millan, Ravenhill, and Company, of Ratcliffe-cross, stated that the firm kept an account at Sir R. Glynn's banking-house, and the pri soner had been a clerk in the house. (Here a check for 450/., signed Millan, Ravenhill, and Co., was handed to witness.) The check was filled up in the undisguised writing of the prisoner, but the signatures were evidently disguised, and a forgery. The firm nev er authorised any body to dimw checks in their name. .When the pris oner WAS a clerk in the firm his hair was quite flaxen. (The - --------__ _ hair had been died as black as jet , a nd hun g over the youth's face so as to cover it effectually.) Mr. Th omas , cas hier at Glynn's, said that the prisoner , whom he knew to be a clerk at Messrs. Milian and Raven. hill's, presented the check on Saturday, the 14th of . May, between ten and eleven o'clock. It was usual with the house to present a check for that amount on Saturday to pay the men with. Witness paid the check in a 50/. note, fifty pounds in half sovereigns, and 350/. in sovereigns. The check was presented at an earlier time than was cus tomary. Witnes s observed to the prisoner that the check was not in the usual hand-writing ; and the pri soner said it was signed by Mr. Cowens, another of the partners. The prisoner having been in the habit of calling with checks for similar amounts on Saturdays no suspicion was entertained, and witness paid the check: The bank note for 50/. was numbered and dated 1,300, 9th of February , 1836. It was changed five minutes afterwards at the Bank, for sovereigns. The LORD MAYOR asked whether the prisoner wished to say anything in his defence ? The prisoner, who was crying at the bar, during the examination, replied in the negative. The second charge (a forgery of 270/. upon another banking-house,) was not gone into. The prisoner was re manded. He had been taking his amusement at Ascot races, at which the police were in attendance in great abun dance, but his black locks bothered them all. JOYS OF WEDLOCK.—A middle-aged couple, rejoicing in the curious name of Tubbs—she hard-featured, and thin as a match ; he, short, wide-mouthed, and bandy--cam e before the bench to have their conjugal disputes adjusted. The wife, who was the complainant, said her handsome helpmate had made, when first married, one of the " best of husbands," and she, in return, had made one of the " best of wives," bringing him four little Tubbs in the space of as many years. Latterly, however, her husband had en rolled himself a member of some march of intellect asso ciation, and had neglected his business to attend the ha; rangues of sundry of the great oratorical " unwashed. He carried matters so far at last as to tell this 4' best of wives" that she must get money to support him, as his time was occupied with affairs a vast deal more important than such common-place matters as shoe-mending. She left him a few days ago, and took a room ; but on Sunday morning he came to her place, broke open the door, and thrertened to murder her. " Your Worship," said the male Tubbs, " it's wery true I'm one of the best of husbands ; but as for she being the best of wives, vy it's quite t'other. When I busted open her door on Sunday I found a man there, just putting on his unmentionables." Mrs. Tubbs—Oh, Tubbs ! consider my character. MAGISTRATE—Was there a man in your bedroom = Mrs, Tubbs—l'll explain how that occurred. A r un g man who know'd me before I was married came and told me he could not get in his lodgings, so I gave him leave t° lie down in my bed while I got him some breakfast. , Tubbs—Yes, your Worship, the best of everything —n° ' rolls and pork sausages. (Wiping his eyes.) She neve r did the same for me all the time we've been married. Mrs. Tubbs—Oh, Tubbs ! you know I've made you a good, prudent wife, only you was always a little jealous , and with no more cause than you had on Sunday morning. The MAGISTRATE recommended the disputants to talk over the matter ; and, having received an assurance from the husband that he would not molest his wife, discharged the warrant. BO W- STREET. Louis Breton was brought up for a fourth examination, charged with various robberies at the Italian Opera-hous e ' The particulars of the previous inquiries have already been given, with the exception of the case which transpired on Saturday. The prisoner was fully committed for trial upon this, in addition to the former charges, and remanded till Thurs day next, to afford time for other cases to be brough t against him. HATTON-GARDEN. George Dawson, the driver of a van, was charged With driving over and severely injuring an elderly gen tleman , name unknown, so that his life is in danger. It was stated that the accident happened while the prisoner was raci n g with the driver of another van, on Friday, near Battle bridge, and as the gentleman was crossing the road. The prisoner was ordered to find bail. MAR YLEB ONE. George Woodford, a young man with a flourishing crop of red hair, residing at No. 43, Frederick-street, Bator stead-road, was placed at the bar before Mr. Shutt, on a charge of having threatened the life of Miss Charlot te Reid, a young lady to whom he had unsuccessfully paid his addresses. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, wh° resides at No. 26, Cumberland -street, in the above neig,ll - that for some time past the prisoner had visited her in the character of a suitor, but having latterly beconfo acquainted with a young man whom she liked better, she gave him the sack, and told him not to come teazing ber any more. Upon this he flew into a towering passion, swore he would not resign his right of possession to the King him" self, and with sword and pistol would annihilate any one who dared to oppose him. She begged of him to be calf° and resigned, as it was impossible they could ever be u nited in the silken bonds of hymen. He, however, vowed that he would have her " whether she would let him or no, and when he came to visit her on the previous evening, sh e refused to see him any more. Upon this being made knowa to him, he refuse to quit the place, and became quit ° frantic. A policeman was called, when he cried out in a paroxysm of despair, " Yes, take me to the station-hous e, I wish to go there, for if I am left at liberty I shall certainly shoot this young lady, her lover, and myself." He was ac cordingly locked up for security. Mr. SIIUTT (to prisoner)—Will you promise not to g° near the young Woman again ? George (sighing)—Alas, , can make no such promise: She's got my heart, and must follow it. Charlotte—Yon see his determination, Sir. My life's not safe—l wish for protection. George.—Nor mine either—l'll hang myself. No, that i won't do ; Well, I'll make a hole in the water. Don't much fancy that. Oh, I've just thought of it, I'll blow my brains out with a pistol—blow'd if I don't now." Mr. SIIUTT.—You must find sureties to keep the pca c t George—Yes, my sureties will be a cord round my nee Charlotte—For God's sake don't hang yourself. George—No, but for your sake I shall be forced to d° The love-sick swain was then locked up in default of bal d William Wilkinson, and a well-dressed female, n a m ed Frances Richards, who have long imposed on the nobility and gentry by fictitious representations of distrem we A r rt committed to the House of Correction for one month. I'l_ immense bundle of begging letters were found in the ir P ° o s. : session, some of which were addressed to the Duc hess Kent, Lords Dartmouth, Surrey, Spencer, and other - _ - ------- wiTA SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS, • STRONG SILVER EDGES, may be selected from of varl? g _ g . Patterns, price 201. the Set, at T. COX SAVORY'S , Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, L0nd0.9., The Set consists of one cover 20 inches diameter, one a 18, 1° 14, and 12 inches. e rior N.B. The SHOW.ROO3I contains a large variety of sup ~t Silver-edged Plated Goods. 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